Harness.



Patented Aug. l, \899. J. S. PARK.

No. 630,30l.

HARNESS. (Application med Apr. 12; 1899.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEREMIAH S. PARK, OF MONTANDON, PENNSYLVANIA.

HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Illettersv Patent No. 630,301, dated August 1, 1899.

Application filed April 12, 1899. Serial No. 711771 (No model.)

the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in harness, and, as will hereinafter appear, the

. improved harness may be used with either single or double teams.

The main object of my invention is to produce a cheap, light, and strong harness Wherein I obviate the necessity of employing the usual uncomfortable breast-strap or collar and transfer the strain to the back of the animal, the place where nature intended, and thus relieve the breast, and consequently the respiratory organs.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear,and the novel fea tures thereof will be more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 isa perspective View of a harness embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a detail of the draftlever hereinafter referred to.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in both figures of the drawings.

In carrying my invention into practice I employ a saddle 1, which may be of any ordinary construction and to the ends of which are connected the usual terminals of a belly band 2, for the accommodation of which the lower ends of the saddle may be provided with ordinary loops or buckles.

In my invention I omit the usual thill-loops, and at the points where they are usually located I locate bell-crank or right-angularlyshaped draft-levers 3, pivoting the same at their angles, as at 4, to the terminals of the saddle. Each of these bell-crank or triangularly-shaped' draft-levers comprises a rear Vertical short branch or arm 5 and a forwardlydisposed horizontal longer arm or branch 6, the latter being designed to terminate at opposite points at about the shoulders of the draft-animah Pivotally connected, as at 7, to the front or free extremities of the horizontal branches or arms 6 are the opposite terminals of the neckband 8, which, like the saddle, may be provided with means forlength'enin g and shortem ing the same in order to fit the'harness to the backs of horses of diiferent size.

, The lower extremities of the rear short vertical branches or arms 5 are connected pivotally or loosely, as at 9, to the front ends of a pair of short traces 10, the rear ends of which are of course connected to the singletree in any Well-known manner.

. At an intermediate point between the angles of the draft-levers and the front ends of their horizontal arms or branches the latter are connected loosely, as at 11, to the rear ends of a pair of thill-straps 12, which may be provided with means for lengthening and shortening, and terminate at their front ends in thill-sookets 13, adapted to receive the front ends of the usual thills l4 and support the same, said thills being, if desired, provided with the usual girth. (Not shown.)

It will be observed that the strain upon the traces tends to draw upon the lower ends of the draft-levers, and thus to depress or draw down upon the front ends of the same, thereby transferring the strain to the shoulders of the draft-animal and'not to the breast, which latter tends to compress the respiratory organs; furthermore, that in holding back the strain is transferred from the front ends of the thills to the thill-straps, from thence to the front horizontal arms or branches of the draft-levers, and from thence to the neckband 8 in much the same manner as before described.

It will of course be understood that my invention may be supplied with buckles, loops, and other accessories, all of which I contemplate doing in the actual practice of my invention, and I would therefore have it understood that I do not limit my invention as to these details of construction, but claim as the essential features of my invention the angular draft-levers or their equivalent devices, whereby I am enabled to obviate the necessity of using collars or breast-straps? Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1.- Inaharne'ss, the combination Witha saddle; a neckband located in advance of the saddle; and opposite angular draft-levers f n1- crumed at the opposite sides of the saddle; loose connections between the terminals of loose connections between thetermina is of the neckband and the front ends of the said draft-levers; and traces connected to the 0pposite ends of said levers; of thill-straps connected to the draft-levers in advance of their fnlcrnms andterminating at their front ends in chill-receiving sockets. i In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesse's.

JEREMIAH S. PARK.

Witnesses:

F. L. MAGEE, W. M. MILLER. 

